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Re: Vice versa: NeXT CD-ROM on Sun

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From: Scott Turner
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:05
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In article <cefX_Gq00VpNEw_1Yi@andrew.cmu.edu>  writes:
|> Sun boxes seem to have problems with devices that can't accept 512 byte
|> sectoring.  The NeXT is much more intelligent about such things.
Try mounting a 1K sectored DOS formatted Syquest cartridge under 3.0.

It no workee. 512 byte sectored Syquests work much better...

And 3.0 is the first release of NS that can mount 2K sectored Unix
filesystems on a CD-ROM drive.

Scotty
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Subject: Re: Vice versa: NeXT CD-ROM on Sun
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Date: 11 Sep 92 07:05:20 GMT
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